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Re: Phoenix meeting 2016
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 6:11 pm
by Chapuis
meles meles wrote:We attended on Friday and enjoyed a breakfast at The Clays cafe, up top where the posh folk pose with their Purdeys. We say 'enjoy' but that was mainly because of the entertainment value. The cafe is neither the epitome of industrious efficiency nor the pinnacle of artisan cuisine. At busy times you can only have a set menu fry-up: if you should happen not to want a fried egg but wish to replace said item with an extra sausage or a hash brown then tough luck ! You get what you are given ! At lunchtimes you can only have a 5 item fry-up: the eight item version is off limits. We fail to see how that reduces the waiting time seeing as they presumably cook everything in parallel rather than in series but that's the way it is. Maybe Mr Mercer should either put his pinny on and sort the cafe out in the way he has the bogs* and swamps**, or bring in contractors from a greasy spoon to shake the place up...
* latrines
** firing point puddles
I don't think you will see many Purdeys at Bisley Brock.
Re: Phoenix meeting 2016
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 6:15 pm
by meles meles
You isn't suggestin' that the likes of that fine upstanding pillar of society Mr Yardley tells porkies and might put a Purdey label on 'is guncase just for snob value is you, ooman ?
Re: Phoenix meeting 2016
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 6:17 pm
by Chapuis
dromia wrote:Chapuis wrote:Sporting rifle shooters in particular are prepared to spend far more on rifles and scopes than ever before.
Not to mentioned the clothing and fashion side of the green wellied, tweed be-speckled cat walkers.
Not quite sure where you are going with that one dromia. Most of the sporting rifle shooters that I know who are prepared to spend a fortune on custom or semi custom rifles and high end scopes usually dress like tramps. It's pretty much the same with the top F class shooters to a certain extent.
Re: Phoenix meeting 2016
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 6:25 pm
by meles meles
Chapuis wrote:usually dress like tramps. It's pretty much the same with the top F class shooters to a certain extent.
"Shabby chic" is the term you are lookin' for, ooman...
Re: Phoenix meeting 2016
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 6:27 pm
by Chapuis
meles meles wrote:You isn't suggestin' that the likes of that fine upstanding pillar of society Mr Yardley tells porkies and might put a Purdey label on 'is guncase just for snob value is you, ooman ?
I believe that Mr Yardley shoots whatever he can scrounge to do a shooting test on from what I read or else doesn't he shoot a fairly low grade Beretta of his own?
I must admit that unfortunately I haven't read much of what he writes for some time.
I think that if you're looking for the "posh" clay shooters you really need to be looking at the H&H shooting ground or the Royal Berkshire shooting school rather than at Bisley.
Re: Phoenix meeting 2016
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 6:30 pm
by meles meles
We thought that the posh shooters would be pottin' partridges and pheasants, not clays...
Re: Phoenix meeting 2016
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 8:06 pm
by Strangely Brown
meles meles wrote: Maybe Mr Mercer should either put his pinny on and sort the cafe out in the way he has the bogs* and swamps**, or bring in contractors from a greasy spoon to shake the place up...
I think you'll find the Clays Cafe has nothing to do with the NRA but is a seperate enterprise.
Re: Phoenix meeting 2016
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 8:17 pm
by meles meles
Oh that's alright then: if the buck for shoddy service can be passed so be it...
Re: Phoenix meeting 2016
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 8:22 pm
by shugie
Strangely Brown wrote:meles meles wrote: Maybe Mr Mercer should either put his pinny on and sort the cafe out in the way he has the bogs* and swamps**, or bring in contractors from a greasy spoon to shake the place up...
I think you'll find the Clays Cafe has nothing to do with the NRA but is a seperate enterprise.
It is, and usually a good place for Sunday lunch when at Bisley.
I didn't see CCA at the Phoenix, which is annoying, as if I'd realised they were there I would have gone for a shufti at one of their vz.58s.
Re: Phoenix meeting 2016
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 8:47 pm
by polemass
CCA was not present this year-I saw him twice there in the past 3 years.
2" snub nose with target grip....
